I actually finished this days ago, but I've been avoiding writing it up here, because…where to begin, really, with this whole <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0104061jamesfrey1.html" target="_blank">flapdoodle</a>. The story begins, for me, months ago, when I was on …

It's very funny, and skillfully avoids a pitfall common to travel writing, namely that the diction starts to repeat itself after a while. Hilarious bits about tourists in Killarney and the non-bird that flew up …

Eh. Too much detail in spots, not enough in others. It's a reissue of a twenty-year-old edition, and a certain creakiness pervades the prose; the book isn't interesting enough to make it worthwhile (i.e. what …

Didn't love it. Too many digressions, too much talking about Nyack, and in spots it felt forced, especially when the author was rising above some situation or another — some of the remembrances and dialogue …